brother printer drivers windows 7 64 bit

They said that many windows 8 computers work justįine with their windows 8 driver so it must be something in my specific system that is messed up. To my wireless system it shows as an available printer device but the status is 'driver is unavailable' so it's not a printer I can print to.Ĥ) I called brother and spent time with their support team, got escalated, and was told that they have heard of this error but that it's not something they can help with as it in an operating system error.

I have, many times.ģ) Then, I tried installing the printer through the windows 8 'add a printer' function and it does not see the device when connected via USB as a printer able to be set up so I get nowhere fast (it does still see it as a scanner). Brother has an install check in its utilities and it always shows the successful install of all but the printer driver and Each time, the drivers for the fax, scanner, etc all install but not the *printer* driver. Op system and to contact the manufacturer. Proceeded, but before it completes (have done this multiple times, uninstalling it each time and with all my firewalls, antivirus, etc off) it produces a windows 'kernel-mode' error that the printer driver cannot install because it's not compatible with my The device was recognized on the network so the install I used the windows 8 driver from the brother site and ran the install as a wireless one (instead of USB). After using their uninstall tool and retrying a few times I figured I'd try to get around that by settingĢ) I successfully connected the printer to my wireless network from the panel on the printer. Through the devices screens that the computer was seeing a scanner attached via that port, but not a printer. Although the install would not complete I did verify forever waiting to 'connect.' I tried different ports, different cords, etc. The install froze at the point it asked for me to connect the printer and wouldn't move to the next screen. exe file located in the unzipped files on another attempt) usingĪ USB connection.

So, I got a new printer (a Brother MFC-J4410DW) and cannot get the driver to install.ġ) I tried installing the driver/software with the Windows 8 driver from the Brother website (downloading the file & then clicking the file to unzip + run. Worked fine until the printer itself broke last week. I have added some software but not changed the operating system. I have a windows 8 computer that is about 3 months old (not a computer that was upgraded, it came with windows 8 & has gotten all windows updates since. I am having the same problem listed in this string:

Brother printer drivers windows 7 64 bit